About

Timo Schmitz (born on 15 October 1993, near Trier, Germany) is a German-Luxembourgish language fanatic, philosopher, journalist, poet and book author. He speaks Luxembourgish, German, English, French, Chinese and Russian on a very high level, but also has basic knowledge of more than 50 languages, especially Turkic languages, Tai languages, Caucasian languages, and Polynesian languages. In 2012, he started to write his first poetry collection in English which was published in 2013 and the start of his professional career. Further poetry collections in different languages followed. He wrote poems in English, German, French, Luxembourgish, Russian, Chechen, Korean, Chinese, Flemish and Yiddish. In addition, he authored books on Buddhism, Daoism, Chechen history, and fictional literature (short stories and a novel).

In 2014, Schmitz also started publishing articles as PDF-files on his blog to share opinions, thoughts and knowledge. In February 2015, he started the series “Individualism between Moral and Virtues, Government and Religion”, which finally consists of 27 articles. The series depicts his own philosophy, the “New Constructivist Communism” which questions contemporary society, morality and thinks of alternative forms of living. It also questions the phenomena called “culture” and gives first thoughts about his cultural critique which followed in 2016. In 2015, he also wrote the series “An Overview of Tibetan History” which consists of 9 articles.

In summer 2016, he wrote newspaper articles for the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and lived in Halle (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany), where he practised his journalist writing skills and got further experience in his journalistic activities. In December 2016, Timo Schmitz published “My Archive of Languages”, a book that contains more than 50 languages,including an orthography proposal on Lingao, which is an unwritten language and field of interest for him since 2012. In addition, he also promotes the Luxembourgish language in Germany, since it is his native language. The usage of Luxembourgish in the Luxembourgish communities in Germany is decreasing as many young people nowadays only speak German in daily life and therefore – unlike people in Luxembourg – don’t learn the language anymore. Together with Iulian Mitran, Schmitz handed a paper about Canda in Sententia Conference in Targu Jiu (Romania), which won the second prize, and which was scientifically published. In July 2017, he published a 33 page long lexicon on his studies of indengenious religious beliefs , which consists of an overview of citations from his own works in which he described different belief systems. The idea behind is to make it easier to find a description in the lexicon paper, so that one does not need to search for every single article in order to maintain the information. In august 2017, Schmitz published his constructed language Jògotan and added word charts in the following months.

Timo Schmitz is the founder and chief editor of the Journal of Ethnophilosophical Questions and Global Ethics, the first issue was published in October 2017.